Aboriginal Victorians A history since 1800 - Richard BroomeEarly Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix happy south land a prize left for them by God. For its original inhabitants, their Country was home and life, not to be relinquished without a fierce struggle. Richard Broome tells the story of the impact of European ideas, guns, killer microbes and a pastoral economy on the networks of kinship, trade and cultures that the First Nations people of Victoria had developed over